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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

This has been one long work in progress - it's taken me over a year to finally finish this puppy! I used two Central Park by Kate Spain charm packs and a Kona can't remember the color yellow as the sashing.

I just bought Angela Water's new Free Motion Quilting book which gave me tons of ideas. I think I just didn't know how to quilt this and that's why it took me so long to finish. I attempted to do a paisley design from the book. It turned out well, but I think I need tons more practice before mine looks like hers!

I have been just using all prints for my backings lately and I wanted to break things up a bit. What better way then to use the solid from the front?

This is my entry in the Aug edition of the My Precious QAL hosted by Kelly at Kelbysews. I just love Kate Spain's work, especially Central Park! I've been on the lookout for more, but sadly it seems to be sold out everywhere :( Oh well, I guess I'll just have to buy a ton of Cuzco to make up for it!

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

I've been working on hexies in my free time at work, not really knowing what I would do with them when I was finished. I'm using scraps from Little Apples and have already made a wallhanging that's in my kitchen, so I decided my cat, Carlton, needed a matching placemat for his food dishes. It's basically just a mug rug about 8" x 14". I sewed the hexies onto a muslin background in red with a thick blanket stitch on my sewing machine and echo quilted a little bit. Very zakka style, no?